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Item 148504

Tombstone Every Mile, 1966

Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: 1966 Media: Phonograph record

Online Exhibits

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Front Door, Yellow House, Gardiner, ca. 1985

Inside the Yellow House

Photographer Elijah Cobb's 1985 portfolio of the Laura E. Richards House, with text by Rosalind Cobb Wiggins and Laura E. Putnam.

Exhibit

"Portrait of Hawa" Mainer project, Portland, 2016

Pigeon's Mainer Project: who decides who belongs?

Street artist Pigeon's artwork tackles the multifaceted topic of immigration. He portrays Maine residents, some who are asylum seekers, refugees, and immigrants—people who are often marginalized through state and federal policies—to ask questions about the dynamics of power in society, and who gets to call themselves a “Mainer.”

Exhibit

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons: Staging the Past

Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) of Kingfield, Maine, experimented with the burgeoning artform of photography. Starting in 1897, Emmons documented the lives of people, many in rural and agricultural regions in Maine and around the world. Often described as recalling a bygone era, this exhibition features glass plate negatives and painted lantern slides from the collections of the Stanley Museum in Kingfield on deposit at Maine Historical Society, that present a time of rapid change, from 1897 to 1926.

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Home: The Wadsworth-Longfellow House and Portland - The Privy

"These men became known as "night men." Privies served as repositories for human waste and as receptacles (or trashcans) for the daily waste generated…"

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Kennebec River Flood, Business district, Hallowell, 1870, 1870

Historic Hallowell - Hallowell Floods

"To the far East, China, was experiencing difficulties with the same problem. The Yangzete river had flooded and many Chinese people were in twist."